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I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat. -- Byron Dorgan
The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek. -- Red Smith
Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station. -- Peter Coyote
I've always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do. -- Lea Michele
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. -- John Dewey
I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction. -- Steve Irwin
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. -- Michael J. Fox
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. -- Jay Inslee
One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife. -- Robert T. Bakker
Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us. -- Ian Somerhalder
Habitat gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to find: to reach out and work side by side with those who never have had a decent home-but work with them on a completely equal basis. It's not a big-shot, little-shot relationship. It's a sense of equality. -- Jimmy Carter
The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family. -- Jonathan Reckford
We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
Our mandate in Habitat for Humanity is to work diligently to help bring into being graceful communities, towns, and cities. his is so important because the alternative is disgraceful. We must begin to think like this. If we do, we will increasingly see transformations in our communities. -- Millard Fuller
Habitat for Humanity is a cause that is near and dear to my heart. I am proud to be a part of the partnership between Whirlpool and Habitat and appreciate everything these two organizations are doing for the wonderful Nashville community and other communities throughout the world. -- Reba McEntire
Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially secure, well fed and housed, and influential enough to shape our own destiny from our neighbors who enjoy few, if any, of these advantages of life. -- Jimmy Carter
The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper. -- Robert Breault
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat. -- Dallas Willard
Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration, -- Paul Stamets
Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration. -- Paul Stamets
The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time. -- Daniel Goleman
Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences. -- Kip Moore
At the end of the day, my natural habitat is in a car and I am happiest in that environment. -- Maria de Villota
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. -- Anita Loos
Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit. -- Alastair Reynolds
My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat. -- Bruno Mars
The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat. -- Virginia Postrel
For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses. -- Mark Foley
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet. -- Greg Graffin
It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things. -- Joanne Woodward
Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new woodland habitat. It's obvious trees are good things. -- Clive Anderson
Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat. -- Willie Smits
It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous climate variation. -- Hendrik Poinar
There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards. -- Jane Goodall
It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat. -- Jim Saxton
The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves. -- Jack Hanna
Our work seeks to focus attention on the necessity of developing security for the global village, meeting its need for clean air, water, food and a healthy habitat, as well as fostering clarity of vision on cooperation and development. -- Rosalie Bertell
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. -- E. O. Wilson
You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population - not individual animals. What you want to save is the foundation, the basic infrastructure from which resources are produced. You can't save Fifi and Boo-Boo and Thumper. -- Ted Nugent
It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one species every hour. That doesn't count the species whose populations are being reduced so greatly that diversity within the population is essentially gone. -- Donella Meadows
We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even within a single animal. We introduce them into a new, rich habitat called the human population, where they can flourish more abundantly and cause more trouble. -- David Quammen
The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication. -- Lyall Watson
The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world. -- Gaylord Nelson
There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat. -- Sylvia Earle
Clutter is my natural habitat. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Home is where my habits have a habitat -- Fiona Apple
The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat. -- Jean Anouilh
We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat. -- Marianne Williamson
It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. -- Robert Breault
Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country. -- Gaylord Nelson
I'd love to see some animals in their natural habitat - as long as those animals are being well looked after. -- Greg Rutherford
You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers? -- Don King
What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat -- Satish Kumar
Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat. -- Gale Norton
There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back. -- George Schaller
The polar bear for many has become a living symbol of the dangers of global warming. The powerful kings of the arctic are finding their habitat shrinking. -- Sam Champion
Eradication of this unquenchable shrub [tamarisk] will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and a number of other riparian species. -- Wayne Allard
Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish. -- William Morris
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well. -- Sam Keen
If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of fish, their habitat and behavior, and you will make your own luck. -- Tony Bishop
The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful evolution of all the components needed in a software system. -- Richard E. Pattis
Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist [s]hould think in terms of wholes, of communities, of interrelationships, and of balances. -- Roderick Nash
Agricultural demand for water - probably the largest threat to freshwater species - continues to increase. ... Meanwhile, threats to terrestrial biodiversity - primarily the conversion of habitat to agricultural uses ... - have not diminished. -- Indur M. Goklany
We can produce imagery to share the beauty of the oceans and what is there to protect. We can also expose the truths about overharvest, climate change, and habitat loss to give oceans a voice. -- David Doubilet

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